Bosch in numbers: the number of originals, the cost of caring for a beard, the scope of jubilee celebrations and other non-final things
It is said that the biography of Hieronymus Bosch is a secret behind 7 seals, his paintings are an anthology of 7 deadly sins and 777 more forgivable, and to understand them adequately requires at least 7 spans in the forehead. This is partly true. However, at the disposal of Arthive there are some other numbers that shed light on the life, work and posthumous glory of Bosch.
5 sons was with Bosch's grandfather, Jan van Aken. At least 4 of them (including the father of Jerome - Anthony van Aken, who died about 1478) became artists.
Not a single Bosch painting left in 's-Hertogenbosch - the city in which the artist was born and died and which most likely never left.
Every 19th of the inhabitants of 's-Hertogenbosch at the time of Bosch belonged to one of the religious congregations, and Bosch himself was a high-ranking (or, as they say now, elite) member of the Hertogenbosch Brotherhood of Our Lady. The one that exists since 1318 and today, and at meetings of which it is customary to feast on a roasted swan.
At least 14 documents, giving an idea of the financial situation of Jerome van Aken, who adopted the pseudonym "Bosch", is available to his biographers. Having married a lot of his older and far from poor Aleut Goyarts van der Meerwene, the artist has never been constrained by money, and by the beginning of the 16th century was considered one of the richest inhabitants of the city.
None of Bosch's works not dated by the author himself.
No name for Bosch paintings. does not belong to him. All the names - and even the names of the characters in the paintings - are later descriptions and interpretations.
5 by 13 centimeters - The smallest of the currently known paintings, attributed to Bosch. This is the "Portrait of an Old Woman" from the Boismans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. However, the researchers are inclined to believe that this is probably not an independent portrait, but only a fragment of some of the unreserved works. The female profile resembles a singing nun from Bosch's other famous Louvre painting, so they assume that the Rotterdam old woman could well be part of an unknown author’s version of The Ship of Fools.
Not a single Bosch painting left in 's-Hertogenbosch - the city in which the artist was born and died and which most likely never left.
Every 19th of the inhabitants of 's-Hertogenbosch at the time of Bosch belonged to one of the religious congregations, and Bosch himself was a high-ranking (or, as they say now, elite) member of the Hertogenbosch Brotherhood of Our Lady. The one that exists since 1318 and today, and at meetings of which it is customary to feast on a roasted swan.
At least 14 documents, giving an idea of the financial situation of Jerome van Aken, who adopted the pseudonym "Bosch", is available to his biographers. Having married a lot of his older and far from poor Aleut Goyarts van der Meerwene, the artist has never been constrained by money, and by the beginning of the 16th century was considered one of the richest inhabitants of the city.
None of Bosch's works not dated by the author himself.
No name for Bosch paintings. does not belong to him. All the names - and even the names of the characters in the paintings - are later descriptions and interpretations.
5 by 13 centimeters - The smallest of the currently known paintings, attributed to Bosch. This is the "Portrait of an Old Woman" from the Boismans van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam. However, the researchers are inclined to believe that this is probably not an independent portrait, but only a fragment of some of the unreserved works. The female profile resembles a singing nun from Bosch's other famous Louvre painting, so they assume that the Rotterdam old woman could well be part of an unknown author’s version of The Ship of Fools.
Only 1 time the woman became the main heroine of Bosch’s altar triptych. This is the “Crucified Martyr” from the Doge’s Palace in Venice, also known at least under 3 names: The Crucifixion of Saint Julia Virgo fortis - resistant maiden).
Crucified Martyr
1500-th
, 105×118.5 cm
300 thousand euros it was necessary to restore the beard on the face of the heroine of the Bosch triptych “The Martyrdom of St. Vilgefortis. According to legend, a Christian saint begged her beard not to be forced to marry a pagan king. On the full restoration of the beard specialists took almost 8 months.
9 years The large-scale Bosch Research and Restoration Project (BRCP), under the leadership of Jos Koldewei and Mathays Ilsink - the beard of St. Vilgefortis reanimated within it. One of the results of the project, which ended in 2016, in the year of the 500th anniversary of the death of Bosch, was the re-attribution of some works by the artist. For example, "7 deadly sins and 4 last things"and "Removing the stupidity stone"from Prado as well "Carrying the Cross" from GhentDutch researchers believe the works of Bosch followers.
Total 24 paintings and 20 drawings owned by Bosch's hand, according to the BRCP findings.
608 pages Makes a catolog of Bosch's works, released by Mercatorfonds as a result of a Dutch research project. You can purchase a catalog for 125 euro.
17 paintings and 19 drawings Bosch, through unprecedented negotiation efforts, was able to get from different museums of the world Charles de Moey, director of the Museum of North Brabant for retrospective the exhibition “Hieronymus Bosch. Visions of Genius ”which took place in 's-Hertogenbosch from February to May 2016.
In 7 million euros Estimated the cost of the exhibition in Hertogenbosch its organizers, still in 3 million cost preliminary research.
More than 420 thousand people visited the exhibition “Hieronymus Bosch. Visions of Genius "in the homeland of the artist. Entry ticket cost 22 euros.
"Three Philosophers" Giorgione's famous painting, which, as art critic Linda Harris, author of "The Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch", depicts Leonardo, Giorgione himself, and Bosch who secretly visited Venice (center).
9 years The large-scale Bosch Research and Restoration Project (BRCP), under the leadership of Jos Koldewei and Mathays Ilsink - the beard of St. Vilgefortis reanimated within it. One of the results of the project, which ended in 2016, in the year of the 500th anniversary of the death of Bosch, was the re-attribution of some works by the artist. For example, "7 deadly sins and 4 last things"and "Removing the stupidity stone"from Prado as well "Carrying the Cross" from GhentDutch researchers believe the works of Bosch followers.
Total 24 paintings and 20 drawings owned by Bosch's hand, according to the BRCP findings.
608 pages Makes a catolog of Bosch's works, released by Mercatorfonds as a result of a Dutch research project. You can purchase a catalog for 125 euro.
17 paintings and 19 drawings Bosch, through unprecedented negotiation efforts, was able to get from different museums of the world Charles de Moey, director of the Museum of North Brabant for retrospective the exhibition “Hieronymus Bosch. Visions of Genius ”which took place in 's-Hertogenbosch from February to May 2016.
In 7 million euros Estimated the cost of the exhibition in Hertogenbosch its organizers, still in 3 million cost preliminary research.
More than 420 thousand people visited the exhibition “Hieronymus Bosch. Visions of Genius "in the homeland of the artist. Entry ticket cost 22 euros.
"Three Philosophers" Giorgione's famous painting, which, as art critic Linda Harris, author of "The Secret Heresy of Hieronymus Bosch", depicts Leonardo, Giorgione himself, and Bosch who secretly visited Venice (center).
Three philosophers
1508, 125.5×146.2 cm
80 years held in the storerooms of the Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the board “The Temptation of St. Anthony” with the attribution of “follower / imitator of Hieronymus Bosch” until in 2016 the status of the painting was raised sensationally: now the work is considered written by Bosch himself.
The Temptation Of St. Anthony
1500-th
, 38.1×25.4 cm
220 to 390 centimeters - The size of the "Garden of earthly pleasures." This is the most large-scale work of Bosch from those that have reached our time, not only in the depth of artistic design and craftsmanship, but simply in size. Bosch’s second largest triptych - “Last Judgment” (163.7 by 247 cmVienna), the third - "The Temptation of St. Anthony" (131.5 to 225 see Lisbon).
3 paintings by Bosch with the same name "Carrying the Cross" stored in museums of three cities: the first in Vienna, the second in Madrid, and the third and most famous (although now not considered the original) - in Ghent.
3 versions of the "Adoration of the Magi" Bosch's brushes are attributed: a triptych kept in Prado (Madrid), and two paintings from the Metropolitan Museum (New York) and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
2 wanderers, very similar to each other, Bosch wrote at different times. One - on the outer doors of the triptych "Whole hay", the second - on the board, which is now represented in Rotterdam (perhaps it was also the casements lost triptych). Some scientists are inclined to believe that both Bosch strangers generously endowed his own features. “This nose cannot be attributed to anyone else!”- says researcher Nicholas Bom, author of the popular science film "The Mysteries of Hieronymus Bosch", filmed by the BBC.
4 types of temperament researchers found in Bosch's painting "The Crowning with a Crown of Thorns." He draws his hands from the lower right corner of the sanguine person, puts his fingers into the choleric wounds, a wreath of thorns puts a phlegmatic person on Christ, and in the upper right corner sympathetically puts his hand on His shoulder melancholic. Many believe that the latter is a self-portrait of the artist.
The crowning with thorns
1510, 73.8×59 cm
Over 40 characters Bosch is available in an iOS and Android application called Bosch Camera, released by the organizers of the Bosch Year celebration in Hertogenbosch. With it, the user can transfer Bosch's heroes to his photos and collages.
3 dollars 99 cents You need to pay extra to get maybe fly on a flying fish among the heroes of the central and right wings of the Bosch triptych in the simulator application for iOS and Android "Bosch: A Virtual Journey Through the Garden of Earthly Delights." The left wing “Paradise” can be explored for free.
500 years ago August 9, 1516, at Bosch, a requiem mass was served at St. John’s Cathedral.
Only 12 years before death artist, in 1504, the year in the documents for the first time the pseudonym "Bosch".
Author: Anna Yesterday
3 dollars 99 cents You need to pay extra to get maybe fly on a flying fish among the heroes of the central and right wings of the Bosch triptych in the simulator application for iOS and Android "Bosch: A Virtual Journey Through the Garden of Earthly Delights." The left wing “Paradise” can be explored for free.
500 years ago August 9, 1516, at Bosch, a requiem mass was served at St. John’s Cathedral.
Only 12 years before death artist, in 1504, the year in the documents for the first time the pseudonym "Bosch".
Author: Anna Yesterday
